How Fructose Makes Us Fat (and Accelerates Aging)
Fruit is part of a healthy diet, right? Recently, research into metabolic products called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGE’s) casts that assumption into a...
How To Shop For Groceries Like A Nutrition Expert
The articles on this site (like most other health/nutrition sites) spend a lot of time focusing on what NOT to eat, and for good reason...
Is Your Shower Exposing You To Dangerous Toxins?
I've written previously about how important it is to be drinking high-quality water that is free of the chlorine, chloramine and fluoride - which takes effort, as...
Oxalates, Phytates and Saponins: The Secret Anti-Nutrients (Antinutrients) In "Healthy" Foods
It's happened many times that a certain food rose to popularity as a "health food" only to later fall from that status when we...
5 Reasons High-Fat Diets Are More Than Just A Fad
We were all indoctrinated early. Living anywhere in the civilized world (but especially in the grain-obsessed US) it was ingrained in us: Carbs are a...
Xenoestrogens: Plastic's Dirty Secret
Remember the BPA scare of a few years ago? Nalgene was pressured into doing a recall of all of their bottles and the rest...
5 *NEW* Ways Wheat Slows Our Brains And Makes Us Fat
Listen - I know, a TON has been written about wheat and gluten over the last few years and how terrible they are. Given this...
An Owners Manual For Your 100 Trillion Gut Bacteria
The first thing to know about your gut bacteria is how little we (meaning "science") actually know about what's going on down there. We know that...
10 Biggest Problems With Vegan Diets
I founded a company that offers exclusively plant-based nutrition products. I ate exclusively vegan for the better part of a decade. Clearly, I'm a believer in...